A to Z Challenge
A Month At The Movies
Hello and welcome back to A Month at the Movies, my contribution to the A to Z challenge for 2023.
This year I am copying from a myriad of other a to z challengers by reprinting the same synopsis about my theme with every letter. You can skip over this part if you want to.
I love movies and have decided to share with you a movie each day that I have enjoyed to one degree or another. With each entry, I'll give a brief synopsis of the film, share a positive and negative review from Rotten Tomatoes ( a website, I didn't use much at all until preparing for the challenge), discuss its resiliency (the theme of the A to Z challenge this year), and other tidbits like whether the film may appear in my top 100 film list, which I have been revamping this year. I think that's enough in the way of introduction, considering you'll be reading it (hopefully) 21 more times this month.
Film: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Director: Irvin Kershner
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| Star Wars Begin Again |
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| Old friends are back. |
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Too back new friends are |
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| Darth Darth Darth Darth Darth Darth Darth Darth Darth |
Positive Tomato: The Empire Strikes Back displays the same soaring imagination that made Star Wars a filmmaking classic; most other space movies seem clunky and earthbound in comparison. Bob Thomas - Associated Press
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By Bogaerts, Rob / Anefo - [1] Dutch National Archives, The Hague, Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANeFo), 1945-1989, Nummer toegang 2.24.01.05 Bestanddeelnummer 931-2164, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27409421 |
Negative Tomato: A Stars Wars that has not only lost much of its humor and charm but more important a good deal of its innocence, traveling in the process light years away from the shiny magnitude of its original world Joy Gould Boyum - Wall Street Journal
If you look closely you can see the Millenium Falcon avoiding being eaten.
Resiliency: The empire is very resilient when it comes to replacing admirals.
Top 100: This movie is definitely in my top 100. The question for me becomes do I put it before or after te original Star Wars. I think what I did with my original 100 was place them back to back which makes the order less consequential. I enjoy watching Empir more than I watch New Hope, but as I explained to someone at C2E2 (A midwest Comicon-like event) I would rank Star Wars just a little higher than Empire since Star Wars paved the way for it. When I make my official top 100 later this year we will see if I have the courage of my convictions.
Next Time: F is for First
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2 comments:
This is my favourite because I thought it more advanced than the first and not so..dumb as the 3rd ( the little Ewoks can bring down a big ass elephant style robot with ropes and stone. Crazy.
I feel much the same as you. I love Empire and objectively it's better than the original Star Wars in many ways, but I usually put the 1977 above it on my favourites lists just because it's the original and it's still so much fun.
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